Battery-carrier.



V. G. APPLE.

BATTERY CARRIER. APPLICATION FILED DEO. 21,1908.

Patented 0013. 4, 1910.

@NITE VINCENT G. APPLE, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

BATTERY-CARRIER.

Y Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 4, 1910.

Application ld December 21, 190B. Serial No. 468,518.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ViNonN'r G. APPLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of'Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Im )rovements in Battery-Cal'- riers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to im rovements in battery carriers, and has forits general object to provide improved means for facilitatino thehandling of storage batteries.

leretofore it has been customary to provide a storage battery withcasings, and carrying handles, generally in the form of a strap attachedby screws or other extraneous fastening means to the casing, of wood orthe like, enveloping the battery cell, but such constructions have theobvious disadvantages of susceptibility to attack of the acid of thestorage battery, presence of metallic parts in proximity to the battery,weakness of the anchorage, if the containing housing is made thin; andothers well known to those skilled in the art.

Among the salient objects of my invention are to provide a batterycasing or housing affording unitary means for the attachment of ahandle, a handle structure of improved construction, and an advantageouscombination of battery housing and handle, which may be strong, ight,compact, non-conducting, and resistant throughout to the attack of acid.

ln the drawing, wherein l have shown an embodiment of my invention;Figure l is a side view with parts in section oi a battery housing andhandle; Fig. 2 is .a plan View with parts in section; Fig. 3 1s asection therethrough, and; Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail of a rafvment ofthe handle.

In the embodiment ofj my invention l provide a battery casing orhousing, either intimately connected with or enveloping the.

battery cell or cells, constructed of rubber or an'alo ous compositionadequately resistant to the attack of the acids of storage batteries,and preferably of a plastic nature. rthis containing casing or housing,generally indicated at 5 in the drawing, preferably has its severalwalls 6 molded as an integral construction, two ofits opposing sidewalls being provided with integral projections 7, preferably in the formof supericially large, relatively shallow, buttons having overhangingheads 8. Such construction affords a housing that may be made relativelythin,

, and provided with.self-supporting integral anchorage structures forthel handle, of relatively large .;ize, ca )able of standingconsiderable diametricai strain without distortion of the button or itscarrying wall, and thus suitable as anchorage points for the earr inghandle. The handle structnre,general y indicated at t), as in the formof a suitable transverse hand grasp member, provided with end loops forengaging the headed buttons, and in the preferrc( embodiment of myinvention it consists of a closed, flexible, insulating band, centrallyenveloped by a sleeve, constituting a hand grip, so that the ends of theclosed baud constitute projecting end loops for application to thebuttons. i

In :the construction shown, 10 indicates a cord, cable or the like, of atlexible material such as twine, having its ends joined, as vshown at 11in Fig. 4, so that the cord in its entirety constitutes a closed band.The entire length of the closed band is enveloped 1n a covering l2 ofinsulating material which may conveniently be a rubber tube, slippedupon the cord before the ends of the cord are joined, having its meetingends vulcanized together so that said envelop or sleeve is closedthroughout its entire extent. The insulated flexible band thus providedis doubled together and its central portion surrounded by astrengthening sleeve 14, of suitable length, preferably in the form of arubber tube of considerable thickness, slipped over `the flexible band,and of such extent that only end loops 13 of the band are left exposed.'The band is vulcanized to the rubber envelop, so that the entirety thusconstituted takes the cross sectional form illustrated in Fig. 3.Preferably the length of the central strengthening portion or hand graspportion, 14, of the handle. is suoli that when in use it extends fromedge to edge of the receptacle 5 and receives the edges of saidreceptacle in contact with its side surfaces.

lt will be apparent that the handle structure 9 thus constituted,comprises a cross member for traversing the housing rcceptacle 5, andend loops connected with said cross member for engaging the buttons onthe cell, is, when constructed as above del scribed, strong, light andof uniform texture and appearance with the casing or housing of thecell.

The handle is applied, as shown in Fig.

v the batte 1 with its end loo s grippin the button, ahdit will beapparnt that, whlile the handle is detachable, the sprin iness of its'relatively heavy mid-portion, are cd across the receptacle,will-eifectually prevent accidental detachment of the handle, while theweight of positively prevents its displacement whi e the battery isbeing carried by means of the handle.

It will be apparent however to those skilled in the art that numerouschanges in the details from the illustrative construction abovedisclosed might be made without departure from the s irit of myinvention and within the scope o the appended claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim is; y

1. The combination of a casinglproviding integral buttons, each havinga` ead and a narrower neck, and a stora e battery handle comprising aclosed band o flexible insulating material, and a sleeve enveloping thecentral portion of said closed band to form an integral central handgrasp and leave the end thereof projecting in the form of closed loopsfor and engagement by the head thereof.

2. A storage battery handle com` rising an insulating closed band offlexib e material, and a rubber tubeenveloping the central portion ofsaid closed bands and vulcanized thereto to form an inte al hand rasp,and leaving its ends exten mg in the gorm of closed loops.

3. A storage battery handle consisting of engagement around the neck.

a non-elastic cord in the form of a closed band,fa tubular insulatingenvelopfor said band, and an insulating sleeve surrounding themid-portion of the said insulated band to leave its ends projecting inthe form of closed loops, the said sleeve and the envelop for the corebeing vulcanized together.

4. The combination of a storage battery casing provided withdiametrically opposite buttons each consistin of a head and a relativelynarrower neck, and a handle comprisin an insulated loop and aninsulating tube s 'pped thereover to leave o posite end loops extendinfrom said tube or engagement over the uttons of the casing.

5. The combination of a storage battery casing provided on its sidessomewhat below the upper edge thereof with diametrically oppositebuttons, each consisting of a head an `a relatively narrower neck, and ahandle comprising a closed loop andan insulating tube slipped thereoverto leave opposite end' loops extending from said tube or engagement overthe buttons of the casing, said tube being of a length such that itextends' from a point between the button and the upper edge of thecasing sides upward, around, and downward to a similar point on the op'-posite side of the casing.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

VINCENT G. APPLE. In the resence of- E. MARTIN, N. E. SN'YDER.

